Columbus Day and Veterans Day will no longer be days off for Stamford students after a vote by the Board of Education Tuesday night. Both days, which are currently days off from school in Stamford, had been proposed as in-school days last year as well. But after push-back from local veterans and Italian-Americans, both remained untouched.
Neither was proposed to be cut this year until Tuesday's meeting, but member Joshua Esses made a motion to take each off the calendar for the next two school years. It passed by a vote of 5-3, with board president Jackie Heftman absent. In favor were Esses, Michael Hyman, Gabriela Koc, Versha Munshi-South and Antonia Better-Wirz. Members Andy George, Becky Hamman and Michael Larobina voted against the measure.
